Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-24
State News.
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ANDROscOoGIN.
members of a Lewiston family n.m.i
Sweeny are heirs, among Others. 10 an e.,.ts
OF $4,000 in Ireland The power Of attorne,
has.Jusf been sent by them to the Americas
Consul.
Mrs. Romeo Doucette. whose remain. v.,s
hunted after, Jan. 29d. under the ice of ,hs
Androscoggin, returned to Auburn Saturday.
II Is said, from Massachusetts
CUMBERLAND.
Bowdoia College has just received from n
w. Fessenden, executor of the will az m.
late Judge Barrows, s., 900 to fouod two or
more scholarships. to be called The Huld,t
Whitmore scholarships"
Fifteen vessels will sail for the South from
eortiand, this week, to engage in the msckerel
fishing.
The kennebec Fibre Co has raised tb:
wages of the workingmen at the mill At Ben.
ton Falls about 10 per cent.
PENoBscor
MI Osgood Fifield of Hampden. was driv.
ing home from church short time apo with
ms wie, when, without any apparent cause,
MS horse became suddenly lame, and an in
vestigation showed that its leg was broken.
A correct list of the shareholders of the
Lincoln Pulp and paper Company shows that
81. John parties are interested some
$4,000 out OF the 5l67 $50 represented nv
the total shares OF the suspended concern.
Friday afternoon, as daughter of Mr.. ].
a. Sampson of Bangor was standing near a
steam mangle in F. o Buzzell's Laundry, one
OF the fingers of her glove was caught 10 the
cog-wheels, and the second finger of the right
hand was pulled between the wheels, taking
on the first joint as though cut by knife.
Chief Justice Peters has just presented the
library Of the Penobscot bar with a full set
OF the New Jersey Equity Reports and Di-
gest. comprising Al volumes. This makes 4
hne addition to the library which has for sew
eral years been the largest and best selected
in the State.
Luther Goliath, at Garland, struck a very
sharp axe into his foot the other day cutting
comp etely through it, splitting the great toe
and the foot back as far as the middle of the
lnstep. 1t was very ugly wound
John Tasker. of Passadumkeag, few DAYS
since, was thrown from load of hay upon a
sharpened sled stake, which entered his body
to the depth of five inches. He is in a criti-
cal condition.
Two Bangor boys while at play Monday
found concealed beneath some bushes a
twenty FIVE pound key of rifle powder 1t
was unbroken and branded "Orange Rife
Powder"
SAGADAHoce
Harry Joy and Herbert Stevens of Bath,
while walking on the railroad track, Sunday
day morning, just east of Sewell's bridge,
discovered several tons of stone on the track.
The road ran through quite ledge cut at
this place. They Immediately went to the
depot and notified proper officers and work
men were sent out and the rocks removed
after couple OF hours work. 1t is supposed
the rocks fell after the Saturday night Pull
man went by.
A young son of Henry Boulter of Knox,
fractured his leg Wednesday by coming in
contact with Post while coasting.
WASHINGTON
The Machias Republican says: In 1871,
Alfred P. Sproul of Cherryfeld was awarded
patent on gang saw strap. One half of
the right he assigned to Geo. H. Coffin of
Harrington. Since then parties in different
parts of the State have availed themselves of
the benefits of the patent without recon-
pensing the owners. They now propose to
institute legal proceedings against such. and
have placed the matter in the hands of
Bangor attorney.
YORK
The Biddeford Times tells of two valuable
citizens, Daniel and John Munday BY name,
which it has cost the county $500 to arrest
and take care of the past FIVE wears. They
both spend more than half their tine in AL
fred Jail, being sent there for intoxication